I have recently joined the 2000+ Club and was awarded the privilege of reviewing Low Quality Posts.

If you have not yet seen the following question and its answers, you are urged to go through them (although not necessary for this particular question of mine):

• "Review Low Quality Posts" does not let you say that posts can be improved

Now coming to my question. The Recommend Deletion button in this review queue gives us a couple of options for posting auto-generated comments for the author:

My question is about the option for:

This is a link-only answer (and not spam)

Why is this option available while we are recommending a post for deletion?

I have always seen the community accepting link-only answers (although the preference is for posting actual answers and providing links for acknowledgement). We do not delete link-only answers.

Or, my understanding of Recommend Deletion button is flawed — It doesn't send the Reviewer's suggestion of deletion to Moderators and we still need to flag answers (me too, thank you, different question etc.) for them to get deleted.

I have recently joined the 2000+ Club and was awarded the privilege of reviewing Low Quality Posts.

If you have not yet seen the following question and its answers, you are urged to go through them (although not necessary for this particular question of mine):

• "Review Low Quality Posts" does not let you say that posts can be improved

Now coming to my question. The Recommend Deletion button in this review queue gives us a couple of options for posting auto-generated comments for the author:

My question is about the option for:

This is a link-only answer (and not spam)

Why is this option available while we are recommending a post for deletion?

I have always seen the community accepting link-only answers (although the preference is for posting actual answers and providing links for acknowledgement). We do not delete link-only answers.

Or, my understanding of Recommend Deletion button is flawed — It doesn't send the Reviewer's suggestion of deletion to Moderators and we still need to flag answers (me too, thank you, different question etc.) for them to get deleted. (To clarify, my present understanding is that pressing this button acts like as we are flagging posts for Moderators to delete them - we do not need to raise additional flags for moderators).